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Caspian Sea Monster:
::slow clap::
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 03 Jun 2013, 18:22 ---it's a flat 6!
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--- Quote from: Redball on 03 Jun 2013, 17:49 ---Carl, the photo of the 14-19-2 230 Cruisemaster's engine looks kind of flat.
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Why, so it is!
I remember hearing a Cessna take off and realizing it was the same sound as the flat four in my old bug. The cruisemaster's cowling looked like it had a horizontally opposed engine, I was guessing. It's such a good engine design!
Caspian Sea Monster:
Modern light civil aviation is dominated by air-cooled flat boxer fours and sixes - so yeah, basically like a giant Beetle or 911 engine with dual spark. The helicopter I learned in is (was :-() powered by a Lycoming O-360 flat four. Radials are... not necessarily higher maintenance, but more difficult to work on due to the cylinder arrangement, and water-cooled engines were a fad that didn't really last much past WWII due to the weight and the serious oh-shit factor of springing a coolant leak.
Water-cooled I6s and V12s are just sexier though. :-P
bhtooefr:
Although, as I understand, watercooled inline-4s are becoming more popular in Europe. (Specifically, two different aero conversions of the Mercedes-Benz OM 640 2.0 automotive diesel.)
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 04 Jun 2013, 16:45 ---I remember hearing a Cessna take off and realizing it was the same sound as the flat four in my old bug. The cruisemaster's cowling looked like it had a horizontally opposed engine, I was guessing. It's such a good engine design!
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so good in fact that the Porsche 959, as I learned watching an older episode of Top Gear last night, used a twin-turbo flat 6. it was also the fastest production road car ever made at the time.
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